{"id":99653,"date":"2025-09-07T11:20:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T15:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=4f59bd88ea76ccd761736611a6aadbd7"},"modified":"2025-09-07T11:20:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T15:20:29","slug":"the-macbook-has-a-sensor-that-knows-the-exact-angle-of-the-screen-hinge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=99653","title":{"rendered":"The MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/samhenrigold\/status\/1964428927159382261\">Hacker News<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: I'm amazed by the assortment of ways I've encountered laptops doing this.  I've seen a whole-ass IMU in each half.  I've seen several magnets and hall-effect sensors that align in significant positions.  I've seen a small number of contacts reading significant positions in the hinge. I've seen a switch in the catch of a closure latch.\nHaving a continuous encoder in the hinge is honestly one of the sanest options.<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=45158968\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comments<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=99653\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}